Thesis
Vector host choice and the environmental context of mosquito-borne virus transmission
- Abstract:
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The present thesis explored ethological and geographical approaches for the investigation of vector-borne parasites. In the first part, the role of associative learning on vector preferences for hosts was investigated through a comprehensive series of behavioural experiments using the vector of dengue and yellow fever diseases, the mosquito Aedes aegypti. To this end, the possibility that the mosquitoes were able to associate unconditional stimuli with particular odours and visual...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Randolph, S
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Supervisor
+ Wyatt, T
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
+ Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES/Brazil)
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Funding agency for:
Alonso, W
Grant:
BEX 1521/98-5
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2003
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6564
- Deposit date:
- 2012-11-14
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Alonso, W
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Notes:
- Updated and improved versions of Chapters 1, 2 and 3 were published at: 1 - text in Portuguese) http://www.researchgate.net/publication/215677443_Epidemiology_and_ethology_in_the_study_of_the_infectious_agents_a_desirable_mutual_contamination; 2) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0074-02762003000500014&script=sci_arttext 3) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00623.x/full
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